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As more details about Terminator 6 are revealed, courtesy of James Cameron and director Tim Miller, it’s time to whack open the paracetamol.

Here, we unravel the (highly confusing, often contradictory) events of Terminators one to five – and explore how the next film, which will see the welcome return of Linda Hamilton as Sarah Connor, will fit into one of sci-fi’s most complex timelines.

Terminator (James Cameron, 1984)

In the first Terminator movie, things are simple enough. By “simple”, we mean mildly confusing and paradoxical, because that’s always the way with time travel – but there’s still a satisfying sort of logic to the way in which events play out.

Arnold Schwarzenegger in Terminator

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